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>> you keep asking me who the real mitt romney is. i have no clue who the real mitt romney is. you had the speaker, newt gingrich, former speaker, newt gingrich on before. please youtube what the speaker said about mitt romney and think about what would make the speaker change his mind so much. when the speaker was talking about mitt romney when he was running against him, he calls him a flat-out liar. he said of mitt romney any man who will lie to get to the white house will lie when he is in the white house. so when i look at people like the former speaker, when i look at other republicans, pretty much every republican candidate who has ever run against mitt romney, all accuse him of having tremendous character flaws, not having a core, being willing to say anything to make it to the white house. this is not kind of where you look at a person and say well, this person's not qualified. >> i just said to beau biden earlier, it's all very well saying that but what about barack obama, i remember this being a very big moment, i was proud of it because i was against guantanamo bay.
>> you keep asking me who the real mitt romney is. i have no clue who the real mitt romney is. you had the speaker, newt gingrich, former speaker, newt gingrich on before. please youtube what the speaker said about mitt romney and think about what would make the speaker change his mind so much. when the speaker was talking about mitt romney when he was running against him, he calls him a flat-out liar. he said of mitt romney any man who will lie to get to the white house will lie when he...
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mitt romney in nevada. i mean, if you live in a swing state, don't be surprised if a presidential candidate shows up somewhere near you between now and november 6th. >> knocks on your door. goes to your diner. side ls up to you on some -- on some commute. okay. they're all out there. and that -- so are we. thanks so much, chris. that does it for us. today in philadelphia. tomorrow on the show, washington democratic senator patty murray. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next. hi, tamron. >> it's 13 days to go. romney camp trying to put out a fire over a candidate and the comments over rape. this time it is richard mourdoch out of indiana. governor romney says he won't take back an endorsement. we'll look at this one. plus, congressman paul ryan as andrea mentioned will be giving a big speech within the hour in cleveland. his fist major policy speech addressing the american dream and poverty. our panel will weigh in on the timing of this speech and how his budget, paul ryan's budget factors in. p
mitt romney in nevada. i mean, if you live in a swing state, don't be surprised if a presidential candidate shows up somewhere near you between now and november 6th. >> knocks on your door. goes to your diner. side ls up to you on some -- on some commute. okay. they're all out there. and that -- so are we. thanks so much, chris. that does it for us. today in philadelphia. tomorrow on the show, washington democratic senator patty murray. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next....
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it's the challenger, mitt romney. and that tells you that potential that still exists for this race to be a little unexpected. and i think in that way, romney is -- >> you're saying basically -- that romney has a higher ceiling than the president. >> i believe that. i think that's true. peter hart said it, and i think it's a very powerful and intuitive comment. >> all right. i want to dig into the polls here. this seems to be a game of turnout, margins, numbers, i'm going to throw a couple things up here, fred, very fast. enthusiasm numbers here on hispanic voters went up 11 points from september, october. 57% to 68. voters 18 to 34, 49 to 60. african-americans, 82-83. that is unchanged. what we should point out, though, among hispanics in 18 to 34, those are still lower than 2008. how concerned? >> lower than 2008, but unlike 2008, we still have two more weeks until the election. look, i think, chuck, that's what this -- that's what this campaign is coming down to. each of the candidates, obama, romney, are going to
it's the challenger, mitt romney. and that tells you that potential that still exists for this race to be a little unexpected. and i think in that way, romney is -- >> you're saying basically -- that romney has a higher ceiling than the president. >> i believe that. i think that's true. peter hart said it, and i think it's a very powerful and intuitive comment. >> all right. i want to dig into the polls here. this seems to be a game of turnout, margins, numbers, i'm going to...
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there are two romneys. one is the romney biography, here i am, here is what i have done, i know how to balance a budget. the other romney is here are my policies, they're a lot different than your policies, i am a tax cutter, i am a free enterpriser, i am going to build up military. now, he said those things, but i don't think he said them in a way that really stuck. >> really? you wanted boots on the throat tonight? >> i wanted to see more aggressive mitt romney. >> the way the president was. >> i thought the president was more aggressive and had less to say which is an odd thing. just like his domestic policy, i don't think mr. obama has a vision for foreign policy at all. i think what these guys did was they counter punched each other to death literally. they're probably both left standing after 15 rounds. i don't think anybody got any place in this. i loved romney's end. i loved the summary. i think he was about an hour and a half too late. >> bring in our panel, sara fagen, a senior aid to george w. bu
there are two romneys. one is the romney biography, here i am, here is what i have done, i know how to balance a budget. the other romney is here are my policies, they're a lot different than your policies, i am a tax cutter, i am a free enterpriser, i am going to build up military. now, he said those things, but i don't think he said them in a way that really stuck. >> really? you wanted boots on the throat tonight? >> i wanted to see more aggressive mitt romney. >> the way...
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romney, wash. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear bewe got to get tough, i hear war. surrounded as he is by the same people who were w's advisers, i feel his presence even stronger. war. does america want a war? in recent years we have had wars going on in iraq and afghanistan. do we now want another one with a far more powerful, more modern islamic country? the implication for romney's tough talk in iran is we can commit an act of out and out war against that country without using the ward wor. we attack their nuclear sites, they say urngcle, and that's the end of it. that's where people like general kour tis le may said 50 years ago during the cuban missile crisis. just knock out the soviet missiles in cuba. they won't do nothing. nikita khrushchev had plans to hit new york and said to. quote, i knew the united states could knock out some of our missiles even if only one or two big ones were left, we could still hit new york. an awful lot of people would have been wiped out. consequences. understand the consequences. th
romney, wash. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear bewe got to get tough, i hear war. surrounded as he is by the same people who were w's advisers, i feel his presence even stronger. war. does america want a war? in recent years we have had wars going on in iraq and afghanistan. do we now want another one with a far more powerful, more modern islamic country? the implication for romney's tough talk in iran is we can commit an act of out and out...
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romney, thank you for joining us on the flight. i get outside and mr. romney? george scott romney, mitt romney's brother. the whole time. happens to love the show. big fan. big fan of dana, especially. >> dana: well, who isn't? >> andrea: did you say nice things about his brother's performance >> eric: i think i did. >> andrea: that would be bad if you said he didn't do well >> andrea: bob and i have the segment on america's newsroom for six years. this morning, it was outed last night i wasn't watching the debate. i was at a rush concert. but i watched the debate when i got home. i got an e-mail from surprisingly the lead singer of kansas. a big deal to me. john alafonte, all the way to the right. classic rock jungie. i have older siblings and grew up in a diner. give me a break. he wrote me an e-mail and he said a message for you. he said i saw your mini debate with beckel. "who is rush?" is he in the stone age? meaning you. if i had to guess i'd say you are in your young 30s, glad to hear you're in to classic rock. i sang with kansas. he said keep it up, "th
romney, thank you for joining us on the flight. i get outside and mr. romney? george scott romney, mitt romney's brother. the whole time. happens to love the show. big fan. big fan of dana, especially. >> dana: well, who isn't? >> andrea: did you say nice things about his brother's performance >> eric: i think i did. >> andrea: that would be bad if you said he didn't do well >> andrea: bob and i have the segment on america's newsroom for six years. this morning, it...
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romney is also a hypocrite. as president obama points out, mitt romney's plan for the auto workers of ohio would have actually sent jobs to china. >> he's hoping you remember that it's likely to create jobs in china because is shifts them overseas instead of here in the united states of america. if mitt romney had been president when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse, we might not have an automobile industry today. we'd be buying cars from china instead of selling to them. >> mitt romney's path to the presidency is impossible without ohio's 18 electoral votes. right now winning ohio is not looking good for romney. six ohio polls were released this week. five of them have president obama leading. one is tied. president obama's average lead in ohio is 2.3 points. that's a big lead, seriously. now families in northern ohio have not forgotten what the rescue of the automobile industry did for their state. one in eight ohio jobs are about the automobile industry. this is why mitt romney is doing everythi
romney is also a hypocrite. as president obama points out, mitt romney's plan for the auto workers of ohio would have actually sent jobs to china. >> he's hoping you remember that it's likely to create jobs in china because is shifts them overseas instead of here in the united states of america. if mitt romney had been president when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse, we might not have an automobile industry today. we'd be buying cars from china instead of selling to them....
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you say here comes romney, here comes romney. the president can stop him if right now he's ahead in wisconsin, he's ahead in ohio, ahead in the public polls in iowa, the romney campaign says that's a dead heat. if the president can hold ohio it almost impossible, not impossible, but almost impossible for governor romney to get to 270. i suspect we got two weeks to go. vice president biden will be paying income taxes in ohio by election day and the president will be through there several times too. but make no mistake, the republicans will be rolling in right behind them. >> i know you're in virginia. let's not forget florida. 29 electoral votes there. we know that florida has a lot of jewish voters. i want to play this exchange this is from last night's debate concerning the state of israel. it begins with mitt romney explaining why he keeps accusing the president of launching this apology tour early in his presidency. here he was. >> mr. president, the reason i call it an apology tour is because you went to the middle east and y
you say here comes romney, here comes romney. the president can stop him if right now he's ahead in wisconsin, he's ahead in ohio, ahead in the public polls in iowa, the romney campaign says that's a dead heat. if the president can hold ohio it almost impossible, not impossible, but almost impossible for governor romney to get to 270. i suspect we got two weeks to go. vice president biden will be paying income taxes in ohio by election day and the president will be through there several times...
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governor romney said this before. first and fourth graders were first in math and english when he was governor. >> republicans and democrats came together on a bipartisan basis to put in education principles that focused on great teachers in the classroom. >> ten years earlier. >> that was what allowed us to become the number one state in the nation. >> but that was ten years before you took office. >> absolutely. >> and then you cut education coming in to office. >> was it before he took office and did he cut education spending? >> yes. actually, the law that's largely credited with those great test scores for fourth and eighth graders is 1993 education law that emphasized test scores and increased funding. and those fourth and eighth graders scoring at or near the top of the nation before romney took office and they remained there since. as for cutting the education budget, romney did do that when he came in to office but it is worth noting that the nate faced a budget gap and the democratic legislature also propose
governor romney said this before. first and fourth graders were first in math and english when he was governor. >> republicans and democrats came together on a bipartisan basis to put in education principles that focused on great teachers in the classroom. >> ten years earlier. >> that was what allowed us to become the number one state in the nation. >> but that was ten years before you took office. >> absolutely. >> and then you cut education coming in to...
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what mitt romney needs to do what mitt romney needs to do monday night to convince remember when you said men are superior drivers? yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate safe driving bonus check? what is that? so weird, right? my agent, tom, said... [ voice of dennis ] ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident-free... ...but i'm a woman. maybe it's a misprint. does it look like a misprint? ok. what i was trying... [ voice of dennis ] silence. ♪ ask an allstate agent about the safe driving bonus check. are you in good hands? say we have. i said we'd transition out of afghanistan and start making sure that afghanistan is responsible for its own security. that's what i'm doing. >> iran is closer to a nuclear bomb. syria is not just the tragedy of civilians being killed by a military, but also a strategically player for america. the president's policies throughout the middle east began an apology tour, and the strategy is unraveling before our very eyes. >> barack obama and president obama trading shots over the preside
what mitt romney needs to do what mitt romney needs to do monday night to convince remember when you said men are superior drivers? yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...allstate safe driving bonus check? what is that? so weird, right? my agent, tom, said... [ voice of dennis ] ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident-free... ...but i'm a woman. maybe it's a misprint. does it look like a misprint? ok. what i was trying... [ voice of...
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romney. the president did that also during the debate. >> governor romney. >> are you trying to deny him his honor , which trails him after leaving office. >> i was just helping him out. >> what are you saying? >> i thought obama was lucky romney didn't feel in a position to hit president obama on his weaknesses. i thought president obama went into libya without congressional authority. that was illegal. president obama has done this drone war, where he has a kill list of people who he himself decides this guy might be a terrorist, we are going to kill him. judge, jury, executioner. all sorts of weaknesses in obama's record but to attack it you would have to attack it from the more dovist side. >> do you think that president obama and governor romney's positions on foreign policy are pretty much identical? >> well i think they are identical to some extent for the purposes of this campaign. i don't think they are going to be identical in terms of execution. i think each side had a particular a
romney. the president did that also during the debate. >> governor romney. >> are you trying to deny him his honor , which trails him after leaving office. >> i was just helping him out. >> what are you saying? >> i thought obama was lucky romney didn't feel in a position to hit president obama on his weaknesses. i thought president obama went into libya without congressional authority. that was illegal. president obama has done this drone war, where he has a kill...
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what mitt romney's tv ads say about women, or what mitt romney, himself, says? >> do i believe supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. >> no matter what mitt romney's ads say, we know what he'll do. >> in an interview with "rolling stone" magazine president obama was asked if he believes mitt romney will try and undo roe v. wade. "i don't think there's any doubt," the president said. "we know the current supreme court has four members who would overturn roe v. wade. all it takes is one more for that to happen." the longer mitt romney stays silent on this issue the worse he looks. this is an issue of leadership and character which i think he lacks. at least richard mourdock, as much as i disagree with him, has the guts to stand up and say what he believes and then stand by it. the same can never be said for mitt romney. get your cell phones out. i w
what mitt romney's tv ads say about women, or what mitt romney, himself, says? >> do i believe supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. >> no matter what mitt romney's ads say, we know what he'll do. >> in an interview with "rolling stone" magazine...
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romney is good at that. the the moderator asked romney if threatening china could ignite a trade war. >> they sell us about this much stuff every year. and we sell them about this much stuff every year. it's pretty clear who doesn't want a trade war. there's one going on right now, which we don't know about. and they are winning. >> romney likes to whine about china, but the president didn't let him get away with it. >> governor romney is right. you are familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because you invested in companies shipping jobs overseas. >> romney wants to label china a currency manipulator. but under president obama, exports have doubled. e he created a trade enforcement task force to prosecute china for cheating. he's also building regional relationships to pressure china to play fair. and there's one other trade policy the president reminded romney about last night. >> if we had taken your advice about the auto industry, we would be buying cars from china instead of selling cars to china. >>
romney is good at that. the the moderator asked romney if threatening china could ignite a trade war. >> they sell us about this much stuff every year. and we sell them about this much stuff every year. it's pretty clear who doesn't want a trade war. there's one going on right now, which we don't know about. and they are winning. >> romney likes to whine about china, but the president didn't let him get away with it. >> governor romney is right. you are familiar with jobs...
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now romney at 49%. talk about the possibility that governor romney wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. >> this is our 57th presidential election. in 52 at least, the popular vote and the electoral have coincided john quincy adams. hayes in '76. bush over gore in 2000. that's not a bad record. 52 out of 56. i wouldn't worry about it so much. >> or 2 out of 3. >> i think 2000 was a moment of great crisis in this country. i think a lot of the polarization in this country, after that, with 9/11 is what caused this country to be what i call a cold civil war. >> it could become even more partisan after that. to pick up on andrew's point, this will all be facing as we the deadline when the tax increases would hit and spends cuts take place and approaching the debt limit. >> this is part of romney's closing arguments. the stakes are too high. romney is running as a guy who can fix big problems and this is what i think is helping to fuel his surge in the final days, that, and i think this is a
now romney at 49%. talk about the possibility that governor romney wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. >> this is our 57th presidential election. in 52 at least, the popular vote and the electoral have coincided john quincy adams. hayes in '76. bush over gore in 2000. that's not a bad record. 52 out of 56. i wouldn't worry about it so much. >> or 2 out of 3. >> i think 2000 was a moment of great crisis in this country. i think a lot of the polarization in...
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now here's governor romney's itinerary. nevada, colorado, virginia, iowa and of course, ohio, ohio, ohio. about the only nonswing state stop, president obama today who touched down in chicago to vote and was asked to show some i.d. >> all right. >> i need some i.d. >> you're right. hold on. i've got my driver's license. here you go. now, ignore the fact that there's no gray hair in that picture. >> speaking to chicago campaign workers, they say mr. obama reminded them to work hard, it's going to be close, he said. if voters don't turn out and these are his words, we could lose this election. more on the president, the challenger and their two events today. jim acosta is on the campaign trail in ohio. so is jessica yellin. gloria borger joins as as well. president obama's campaign could not like these numbers. we should ignore national polls but these are state polls we're looking at. romney has either closed the gap or is ahead. what do they make of that? >> anderson, i can feel you smile when i tell you this but they say t
now here's governor romney's itinerary. nevada, colorado, virginia, iowa and of course, ohio, ohio, ohio. about the only nonswing state stop, president obama today who touched down in chicago to vote and was asked to show some i.d. >> all right. >> i need some i.d. >> you're right. hold on. i've got my driver's license. here you go. now, ignore the fact that there's no gray hair in that picture. >> speaking to chicago campaign workers, they say mr. obama reminded them to...
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romney did do well compared to obama. there was disappointment with obama among democrats after the first debate. i think he has started to regain some of that because it is performances, but the first debate at a tremendous impact on the race. >> wherever obama goes, you hear him say, come out and vote, you have to. >> he relies on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, people he needs and that catapulted him to the top in 2008. remember, there was a big turnout in 2008. those people lack the passion today and he needs to get them out. >> the pew research center and a harvard university poll indicates, it if they are accurate, that fewer young people are going to turn at this time than last time. >> i don't think you really need a survey to tell you that treat your own eyes, your own experience can tell you that. i don't know anybody who says that young people are going to vote more this year. >> one thing obama has is this data mining think, this state of the arctic about -- this state of the art dat
romney did do well compared to obama. there was disappointment with obama among democrats after the first debate. i think he has started to regain some of that because it is performances, but the first debate at a tremendous impact on the race. >> wherever obama goes, you hear him say, come out and vote, you have to. >> he relies on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, people he needs and that catapulted him to the top in 2008. remember, there was a big turnout...
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romney seems naive. i tweeted back do you think to the average joe and she tweeted back probably not. i think governor romney did enough to convince the average american that he was conversant with foreign policy and by a aligning himself with the president he absolutely reassured americans that there's not going to be hawkish guy in the white house, that they're going to have to worry about having another ground war in asia. i thought president obama won the debate dramatically on points. in terms of changing votes i think what the romney campaign did was very smart because all the walk backs, they're viewed by a million people. last night was viewed by 50 million people. >> howard, i think what you're seeing today in the aftermath of this debate is the president trying to make the walk backs and romnesia a character issue to undermine any belief that americans may have, okay. i can trust this guy that's not an elite plutocrat. >> the president has been making that since the first debate and it's not cl
romney seems naive. i tweeted back do you think to the average joe and she tweeted back probably not. i think governor romney did enough to convince the average american that he was conversant with foreign policy and by a aligning himself with the president he absolutely reassured americans that there's not going to be hawkish guy in the white house, that they're going to have to worry about having another ground war in asia. i thought president obama won the debate dramatically on points. in...
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he is running on kill romney. that worked because he had all the money and there were no answers to all the ads until the first debate. he has run out of ideas. that is his problem right now. >> bret: what is the hope for democrats if they close to win? what is their closing hope? >> i don't know what the closing argument will be. i think they only turn out as a result of fear. there is a better chance to get them in the car. >> if not i don't think enough turn out. >> that is it for the panel. we'll be in ohio next week. bill hemmer will be there. that is ground zero. stay tuned to see two specific groups that the campaigns are trying to sway. begin. tomato, obviously. haha. there's more than that though, there's a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. it's kind of like drinking a food that's a drink, or a drink that's a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. could've had a v8. [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! oh...
he is running on kill romney. that worked because he had all the money and there were no answers to all the ads until the first debate. he has run out of ideas. that is his problem right now. >> bret: what is the hope for democrats if they close to win? what is their closing hope? >> i don't know what the closing argument will be. i think they only turn out as a result of fear. there is a better chance to get them in the car. >> if not i don't think enough turn out. >>...
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romney's position on iran. he says mr. romney's position has always been to find a diplomatic solution first, a military option last. new york magazine's john heilemann calls him on that falsehood. take a listen. >> yes, of course, he always said it should be the last resort. but if you're talking mostly about the military and you're doing it in israel, people are going to get the impression you're more bellicose than when you're talking about the need for talks, right? >> i think this is like splitting hairs. >> ana marie, tough love this guy. is there any republican who is more factually challenged? >> there are very few. for me dan is so intimately linked with iraq i sort of can't picture him without wearing combat boots. and i think, you know, it's not splitting hairs. dan is definitely hawkish on all of these things. again, so many people surrounding mitt romney have been former bush advisers, were pro-iraq war enthusiasts, have been pro-syria intention enthusiasts. these are people that want to go to war. sometimes i
romney's position on iran. he says mr. romney's position has always been to find a diplomatic solution first, a military option last. new york magazine's john heilemann calls him on that falsehood. take a listen. >> yes, of course, he always said it should be the last resort. but if you're talking mostly about the military and you're doing it in israel, people are going to get the impression you're more bellicose than when you're talking about the need for talks, right? >> i think...
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but governor romney didn't back down. he tried to portray the president as pulling america's world image down to a level of weakness. >> at home and abroad he has dick cheney as someone who shows great wisdom and judgment. taking us back to those strategies that got us into this mess are not the way we are going to maintain leadership in the 21st century. oo governor romney wrong and reckless policy? >> i have a policy for the future and agenda for the future. when it comes to our economy at home i know what it takes to create jobs and rising take home pay. what we have seen the four years and i don't want to see it the next four years. >> differences on foreign policy and policies at home there were a few moments when governor romney expressed agreement with the president including ruling out military action in syria continues to support sanctions against iran. supporting a timetable for withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan. governor romney committed the president on the killing of osama bin laden. the two men have s
but governor romney didn't back down. he tried to portray the president as pulling america's world image down to a level of weakness. >> at home and abroad he has dick cheney as someone who shows great wisdom and judgment. taking us back to those strategies that got us into this mess are not the way we are going to maintain leadership in the 21st century. oo governor romney wrong and reckless policy? >> i have a policy for the future and agenda for the future. when it comes to our...
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mitt romney staring at barack obama. some suggesting he may have look at little angry or acted a little bit more aggressively. mitt romney smiling and sort of the obama team put it the other day the happy warrior in debate. took a complete pass on libya as you mentioned and talked about how we deal with these extremists saying we can't kill our way out of this mess and talking about later how we want a peaceful planet. accusing president obama a failure to lead. making his points more on overall policy failure and obama team part saying our influence in the world is receding. much as he did in that debate last week where he gave one answer, mitt romney did, that summed up his positions on the economy. that one sound bite that got repeated over in over in the days that followed. he attempted to do the same tonight on foreign policy when he talked about the situation in syria. he talked about 30,000 dead and a failure to lead in his view. chaos in the middle east, jihadists continuing to spread. iran four years closer to i
mitt romney staring at barack obama. some suggesting he may have look at little angry or acted a little bit more aggressively. mitt romney smiling and sort of the obama team put it the other day the happy warrior in debate. took a complete pass on libya as you mentioned and talked about how we deal with these extremists saying we can't kill our way out of this mess and talking about later how we want a peaceful planet. accusing president obama a failure to lead. making his points more on...
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is it the romney there last night or the romney in the past? do you think he really believes that 2014 is it? or he asks the generals again, do we stay longer? >> we're probably going to end up with some sort of a residual force, but right now close to 70,000. if we end up with 10,000 or 15,000 in afghanistan, it's not the end of the world. i think it makes sense if we can get a situation where americans and afghans can work together and train together. the biggest problem with afghanistan is people we're training are killing the americans. >> and, willie, that really is -- i did not go to any military colleges, but if you were actually training people to turn around and kill you, that's a bad sign you need to get out of the country. >> i audited a class at west pointe once. >> here we go. we were doing so well. coming up live -- >> what about the giants? we're going to talk about the giants. >> we're going to keep going here. senator john mccain will be here onset. and also romney's sparring partner and debate prep, dr. brzezinski will join us
is it the romney there last night or the romney in the past? do you think he really believes that 2014 is it? or he asks the generals again, do we stay longer? >> we're probably going to end up with some sort of a residual force, but right now close to 70,000. if we end up with 10,000 or 15,000 in afghanistan, it's not the end of the world. i think it makes sense if we can get a situation where americans and afghans can work together and train together. the biggest problem with...
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artist referred to mitt romney. president obama said kids have good instincts and look at the other guy and say, well that's a -- ♪ >> rocking out for romney. recognize that guy? rock legend meatloaf threw his endorsement to mitt romney at the govern her's campaign rally in ohio. shouting to the crowd go out and argue with your relatives, talk politics and talk up the gop ticket. and then a rising screen star voicing her support for the president. creator and star of hbo's hit "girls" helped with a new obama ad joking with young voters your first time shouldn't be just with anybody. >> it should be with a guy with beautiful -- someone who cares about and understands women. a guy who cares when you get health insurance and birth control and the consequences and huge, a guy that brought the troops out of iraq. don't want a guy saying i'm at the library studying when really he's not signing the lily ledbetter act. >> that's going to do it for me today. "now" with alex wagner is coming up next. a friday edition right
artist referred to mitt romney. president obama said kids have good instincts and look at the other guy and say, well that's a -- ♪ >> rocking out for romney. recognize that guy? rock legend meatloaf threw his endorsement to mitt romney at the govern her's campaign rally in ohio. shouting to the crowd go out and argue with your relatives, talk politics and talk up the gop ticket. and then a rising screen star voicing her support for the president. creator and star of hbo's hit...
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, a romney administration use force? we really don't have the answer to that question. we still don't have the answer to that question. what is -- i thought it was for the first time, we did here because i asked romney this question about mubarek andy the w the number rec decision is one of the most quons consequential decisions this president made and it is going to be historically a consequential decision, especially if the united states president is ever faced with this in a saudi arabia, for instance, and for the first time when romney hugged him on that, i went, wow, because romney has come this close to saying i wouldn't have done that. he threw our allies under the bus, that has been a talking point of romney and, boy not only did he backtrack from that, he said you know what? i would have done the same thing as the president and that one floored me. > th was -- >> rose: john dickerson. >> charlie, one thing about the horses and bayonets line, i think al is exactly right there was substance to the barb, but we sho
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it stands in sharp contrast to romney romney's. we can look at these polls a million different ways. they all say something different. at the end of the day, we're focused on getting the president across the country. meeting as many voters as possible. and investing in that ground game, ohio, florida, the first day of early voting yesterday, record numbers of people are m coing out to vote. there's a sign behind the president's re-election. we're confident. >> we're also seeing newspaper endorsements. president obama getting the endorsement of "new york times." the des moines register hasn't endorsed a republican since 1972 richard nixon, they endorsed romney, saying that he offers a fresh economic vision. it said that barack obama rocketed to the presidency from relative obscurity with a theme of hope and change. a different reality has marked his presidency. his record on the economy the past four years does not suggest that he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years. how much does this hurt? >> they
it stands in sharp contrast to romney romney's. we can look at these polls a million different ways. they all say something different. at the end of the day, we're focused on getting the president across the country. meeting as many voters as possible. and investing in that ground game, ohio, florida, the first day of early voting yesterday, record numbers of people are m coing out to vote. there's a sign behind the president's re-election. we're confident. >> we're also seeing newspaper...
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mitt romney was knee-deep in it. a rising star at a boston consulting group, bain & company, which had a great pitch. help businesses make money by cutting costs. >> by all accounts, mitt romney was very successful in advising companies how to improve their business operations. >> but soon romney's boss had a better idea. instead of just advising companies, why not buy them with investor money to generate huge profits. and bain capital was born. early partner jeffrey rennart. >> well, it was a lot of long hours, a lot of late nights and a lot of learning but a lot of success. >> so what kind of a leader was mitt romney during those early years? >> i would say in the early years mitt was a lead-by-example kind of leader. he -- you know, he dug in, you know, did analysis side by side with us. >> and it paid off. bain capital invested in more than 100 companies, nearly doubling its returns for clients annually. >> how you doing? >> romney made a lot of money, and he would later claim created a lot of jobs. but a former
mitt romney was knee-deep in it. a rising star at a boston consulting group, bain & company, which had a great pitch. help businesses make money by cutting costs. >> by all accounts, mitt romney was very successful in advising companies how to improve their business operations. >> but soon romney's boss had a better idea. instead of just advising companies, why not buy them with investor money to generate huge profits. and bain capital was born. early partner jeffrey rennart....
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romney's campaign. promise tax cuts that would blow a much bigger hole in the federal budget while worsening economic inequality. his claims he could avoid those negative effects which defy math and which he refuses to back up with actual proposals are more insulting than reassuring. wlaets get right to our panel inform washington. eugene robinson, an msnbc analyst and a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the aforementioned "washington post" and here in new york richard wolffe is the vice president and executive editor of msnbc.com. romney has been saying the democrats have a shrinking campaign because all they want to talk about is abortion. we've been talking for 12 months about mitt romney's economic plan. we've been talking for two years about his central thesis for the presidency, what he wants to do, and what we have today is someone as esteem as general colin powell saying he, too, has looked at mr. romney carefully and decided the man is vac cuous and has nothing to stand on. >> by the way, wo
romney's campaign. promise tax cuts that would blow a much bigger hole in the federal budget while worsening economic inequality. his claims he could avoid those negative effects which defy math and which he refuses to back up with actual proposals are more insulting than reassuring. wlaets get right to our panel inform washington. eugene robinson, an msnbc analyst and a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the aforementioned "washington post" and here in new york richard wolffe is...
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romney. during monday night's debate, romney claimed he never opposed the automobile rescue, but he did. in 2008, he wrote an op-ed of "the new york times," saying that the government should let detroit go bankrupt. romney now insists he wanted a managed bankruptcy. instead, by the way, romney's not talking about the automobile industry on the campaign trail lately, but president obama is. >> if you sit on stage in a nationally televised debate, saying how much you love cars. you're a car guy, except you wrote an article titled, "let detroit go bankrupt," then you almost certainly have romnesia. >> romney not only opposed the policy which saved the automobile industry and more than a million jobs, he actually -- listen to this, folks -- profited off of it. that's right. "the nation" magazine reports that romney, he had invested in delphi. it's a major supplier of general motors. and it was in serious financial trouble back in 2009. delphi ended up getting, what? billions of taxpayer dollars t
romney. during monday night's debate, romney claimed he never opposed the automobile rescue, but he did. in 2008, he wrote an op-ed of "the new york times," saying that the government should let detroit go bankrupt. romney now insists he wanted a managed bankruptcy. instead, by the way, romney's not talking about the automobile industry on the campaign trail lately, but president obama is. >> if you sit on stage in a nationally televised debate, saying how much you love cars....
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>> romney. >> romney. >> romney, too. >> three romneys. adam? doesn't matter. we'll put it there. we'll see. okay. new hampshire, adam, go. >> romney. >> obama. >> man -- >> push. >> come on! >> obama. >> romney. >> you're 2-2. i have to leave it. wisconsin. >> obama. >> obama. >> obama. >> all right. we'll put that there. new hampshire we're leaving. virginia? >> obama. >> obama. >> obama? >> i'm going to go obama. >> romney. >> romney? >> romney, too. >> leave it in the middle. >> iowa? >> obama. >> obama, too? >> obama, but boy, that's moved. >> you're all there. >> all right. i'm not giving my opinion here. we'll go -- since adam is here, ohio first. >> i'm going to go obama. >> obama, too. >> obama. >> obama. >> well then if that's what you think, it's over. moved it this way, it wouldn't matter. you say the plern firewall is going to hold. >> yeah, yeah. >> i'm not sure the iowa holds. i won't make you comment on florida but if you had to push florida today, where? >> push it to romney. >> romney. >> i think romney. >> look at that. florida wouldn't be enough. we'll see. i g
>> romney. >> romney. >> romney, too. >> three romneys. adam? doesn't matter. we'll put it there. we'll see. okay. new hampshire, adam, go. >> romney. >> obama. >> man -- >> push. >> come on! >> obama. >> romney. >> you're 2-2. i have to leave it. wisconsin. >> obama. >> obama. >> obama. >> all right. we'll put that there. new hampshire we're leaving. virginia? >> obama. >> obama....
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it will be obama more than romney which is a failed opportune for romney. >> there's bean suing fwegs that a lot of the strategy on both side is to turn many of these foreign policy issues into economic arguments. how much will we see that? >> i've heard from republicans who are privy to mitt romney's debate preparations yes it will be mitt romney who will try to turn every answer he can back to the my. i heard people close to president obama's campaign that he'll try do that too because he has to pivot to a closing message and he needs to start talking about the economy. of course we've seen economic indicators over the past couple of weeks that actually look pretty good for the economy so i expect that president obama will play those up too. but it's going mitt romney who will want to talk more about the economy. >> i want to bring in reince preibus, chairman of the republican committee. good morning. lot to get. a line we keep hearing is that mitt romney was the first to politicize libya. if that comes up tonight how does he respond? >> you know, i think it's just a matter of what
it will be obama more than romney which is a failed opportune for romney. >> there's bean suing fwegs that a lot of the strategy on both side is to turn many of these foreign policy issues into economic arguments. how much will we see that? >> i've heard from republicans who are privy to mitt romney's debate preparations yes it will be mitt romney who will try to turn every answer he can back to the my. i heard people close to president obama's campaign that he'll try do that too...
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florida, 46 for obama, 48 romney. virginia, obama 48, 48 romney. colorado 47.6, 47.8 there. i mean, interesting mix of numbers. quickly, i have to ask you, when you wake up in the morning and try to assess where the race is, is that the horse race you're following right now? >> i don't obsess over every single poll. i look at nate silver and other websites to see what the averages of the big polls are. some i count more in my mind than others. but, you know, the bottom line fact is that when you climb to 270 electoral votes and discussed it with the previous guest obama has many more past that than romney does still right now. >> michael, thank you very much. we showed before you came on the latest nate silver average of numbers and he does have obama up right now. thank you so much. i greatly appreciate it. always a pleasure. >>> developing now, governor romney campaigning in nevada, day two of the governor on the ground in that state. we'll be right back. estor. i invest in what i know. i turned 65 last week. i'm getting married. planning a life. there are risks, sure. but
florida, 46 for obama, 48 romney. virginia, obama 48, 48 romney. colorado 47.6, 47.8 there. i mean, interesting mix of numbers. quickly, i have to ask you, when you wake up in the morning and try to assess where the race is, is that the horse race you're following right now? >> i don't obsess over every single poll. i look at nate silver and other websites to see what the averages of the big polls are. some i count more in my mind than others. but, you know, the bottom line fact is that...
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and so the massachusetts romney, obviously very different from the 2008 romney. 2008 romney pretty different from the 2012 romney. and so here's a guy whose skills are not ideological, they're not philosophical. his skills, his passion is about process, not about ends. >> he thinks, "the weak condition of the economy, that's made for me, mitt romney. i can fix that problem. and this is what i'm trained to do. i can come in, i can build a team, i can be serious about this." i think, you know, with every fiber of his being, he believes he can do that. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept your nomination for president of the united states. (crowd cheering) >> narrator: now, america faces a choice between these two very different men. one, a son born to privilege who followed a path blazed by his father. a bishop with a deep faith in god, family and his own abilities. the other, a son born to an absent father and mother who created his own identity and came to believe that he could find common ground in a nation's differences. the challenger, a businessman who became a turnaround specialist a
and so the massachusetts romney, obviously very different from the 2008 romney. 2008 romney pretty different from the 2012 romney. and so here's a guy whose skills are not ideological, they're not philosophical. his skills, his passion is about process, not about ends. >> he thinks, "the weak condition of the economy, that's made for me, mitt romney. i can fix that problem. and this is what i'm trained to do. i can come in, i can build a team, i can be serious about this." i...
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romney can win. romney is deploying his resources and previously won by double digit states of president obama's so we're down to the ground game. there's little that these gentlemen can say at this point that can exceed what their ground game has to do. we have a great ground game. we don't even -- our high propensity voters haven't even voted yet and i would disagree with my esteemed colleague and beautiful husband that it wasn't the debate, what happened at the debate was that romney filled the hole that voters wanted to be comfortable voting against barack obama and for mitt romney which is what romney's going to do for the next four years to grow the economy. there's nothing fundamental has changed. this economy is the worst ever, energy prices are not down and people are living the same life they lived four years ago. so that's what this race is about. not the polls. >> look, first of all, president obama won by 7.3 last time so he doesn't have the duplicate what he did in 2008 to win. secondly
romney can win. romney is deploying his resources and previously won by double digit states of president obama's so we're down to the ground game. there's little that these gentlemen can say at this point that can exceed what their ground game has to do. we have a great ground game. we don't even -- our high propensity voters haven't even voted yet and i would disagree with my esteemed colleague and beautiful husband that it wasn't the debate, what happened at the debate was that romney filled...
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, if romney comes up short, you are going to have a bunch of conservatives that will blame romney, blame the campaign. when you look at the poll over the last year, romney's favorable ratings are better than the favorable ratings of the republican party. if obama wins he will do it on the backs of aender gap and hispanics. is that mitt romney's issue or the issue of the republican party? that's an interesting question if that's the way things turn out on election day. >> that's the $64,000 question, chuck. if there is romney loss does it make the pear trend more conservative or moderate? that's something we will see in a lame duck session. ping chuck vh1. >> classic. >> i'm sorry, classic. that dates you more. >> don't trust no one over 40 now. that's my problem. >> absolutely. you watch those videos. chuck will be back in just a few minutes with a close-up on colorado. why that battleground state isn't getting respect it deserves. up next, we will hear from both the obama and romney campaigns as they sprint to the finish. whos that momentum? could mourdock's comment change the dynamic o
, if romney comes up short, you are going to have a bunch of conservatives that will blame romney, blame the campaign. when you look at the poll over the last year, romney's favorable ratings are better than the favorable ratings of the republican party. if obama wins he will do it on the backs of aender gap and hispanics. is that mitt romney's issue or the issue of the republican party? that's an interesting question if that's the way things turn out on election day. >> that's the...
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and a reuters poll shows 37% obama won and 31% romney won. and 42% believe mitt romney won. today nate silver forecasts that on november 6th, president obama has a 73% chance of winning re-election and mitt romney will win 247 votes. >> i know you work while rush limbaugh is on. you actually overlap with him. >> i actually have him in my ear. >> you can't miss a minute. >> so you cut deeply into his first hour of ratings. >> i do. >> therefore it is my job to deliver to you what rush has said today. it took him a while but he figured out romney's debate strategy last night. >> a lot of people on our side thought he agreed with obama too much. a lot of people on our side didn't like that debate last night. let me just tell you. if my circle of friends is any indication. a lot of people thought romney got his clock cleaned, didn't like it at all. think the election is lost. i'm not kidding you. once i understood the strategy that the romney camp was employing, then the whole thing made sense to me. and the original disquietness and uncomfortableness and dissatisfaction that i
and a reuters poll shows 37% obama won and 31% romney won. and 42% believe mitt romney won. today nate silver forecasts that on november 6th, president obama has a 73% chance of winning re-election and mitt romney will win 247 votes. >> i know you work while rush limbaugh is on. you actually overlap with him. >> i actually have him in my ear. >> you can't miss a minute. >> so you cut deeply into his first hour of ratings. >> i do. >> therefore it is my job to...
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today in colorado, romney leads. today in new hampshire romney leads. the race is dead even, my suspicion, by monday in ohio. and we have got a barn burner. >> bill: you are not even talking about florida, which i believe the governor is going to win. >> florida, the reason why i haven't been talking about it i think it's sweeping in the republic column same thing as virginia. five polls thursday through saturday of last week. >> bill: virginia, and the momentum in virginia and florida. this is fair and balanced is going -- the governor's way right now. we don't know about the third debate. the instinct is not doing very much. however, if president obama wins ohio then. it becomes problematic for the governor. right? he has to do an extraordinary amount of winning the -- >> you have to win colorado and wisconsin. or colorado, nevada, and new hampshire. why is nevada with the highest unemployment rate in the country still so stead fast for obama. big unions in las vegas. culinary union. >> bill: in clark county. >> clark county. very good. second thing i
today in colorado, romney leads. today in new hampshire romney leads. the race is dead even, my suspicion, by monday in ohio. and we have got a barn burner. >> bill: you are not even talking about florida, which i believe the governor is going to win. >> florida, the reason why i haven't been talking about it i think it's sweeping in the republic column same thing as virginia. five polls thursday through saturday of last week. >> bill: virginia, and the momentum in virginia...
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eyre still trying to explain that. >> ken romney eastwind without oh? -- can romney win witho ohio? >> yes, but it will be a tough one to reachch. but it is still very close race. >> virginia? >> v virginia will still probably end op in obama's camp. >> i look at the polls when we started the program and romney is up on average -- >> there is another poll that shows that obama is up in virginia. but he has been running strong in virginia, and even with the heavair onslaught by romney, it still shows the northern virginia area, which will be very important in the state, supports barack obama. >> new hampshire could be in play. >> new hampshire traditionally was a republican state. it only b became democratically presidential -- presidentiay democraratic recently. but the proroblem romney is that unless he real gets surge that covers a lot of these states, if he loses ohio and virginia, let's say, or ohio and ioiowa or ohio and wisconsin, he has to run the table on the other ones. >> you will get confused unless you are a jockey, but everybody seems agree that the path is clearer and
eyre still trying to explain that. >> ken romney eastwind without oh? -- can romney win witho ohio? >> yes, but it will be a tough one to reachch. but it is still very close race. >> virginia? >> v virginia will still probably end op in obama's camp. >> i look at the polls when we started the program and romney is up on average -- >> there is another poll that shows that obama is up in virginia. but he has been running strong in virginia, and even with the...
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at the end of the day, mitt romney was right. there is a certain segment of the population that's going to vote for obama and a certain segment going to vote for mitt romney. the question becomes can you really reach that ten people that's going to decide who the next president will be, those independents out there. independents get turned off by that, according to the statistics. they really, really don't get swayed by the negative campaigning. what they get swayed by is the closing argument, if you will, that steve mentioned a few moments ago, is who is going to best provide for my family, who is best going to provide for health care and education and so forth. at the end of the day, they don't make up their minds typically till the last minute. these ads out there, for the most part, they're going to stoke up the base on both sides but not going to sway independent voters. >> is that not insignificant, steve, given the fact that turnout is going to be so critical in these battleground states? >> yeah, look, there's a lot of mo
at the end of the day, mitt romney was right. there is a certain segment of the population that's going to vote for obama and a certain segment going to vote for mitt romney. the question becomes can you really reach that ten people that's going to decide who the next president will be, those independents out there. independents get turned off by that, according to the statistics. they really, really don't get swayed by the negative campaigning. what they get swayed by is the closing argument,...
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mitt romney? what i was surprised about, greta during the debate on the middle east, mitt romney didn't bring up israel once. it just shows he isn't committed to israel in the way he says is he and only used it as a political opportunity and not done a very good job. >> i was surprised and is a missed opportunity for governor rom neechl i would have mentioned president obama didn't meet with prime minister netanyahu when he was here and that he was today there was a israel's embassy web site where they talked about they're surprised about the story whether there would be bilateral talk was iran or not. looks like there is a very chilly relationship between the president and prime minister netanyahu. ways surprised that governor romney didn't hit him with that. >> i was surprised that governor romney, who said israel is a priority didn't mention it. president obama made it clear in word and deed he has had israel back. he reiterated time and again when it doumz making sure israel and united states
mitt romney? what i was surprised about, greta during the debate on the middle east, mitt romney didn't bring up israel once. it just shows he isn't committed to israel in the way he says is he and only used it as a political opportunity and not done a very good job. >> i was surprised and is a missed opportunity for governor rom neechl i would have mentioned president obama didn't meet with prime minister netanyahu when he was here and that he was today there was a israel's embassy web...
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mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit go bankrupt. >> bill: uh-huh. >> and romney knows he needs to deal with it. yesterday romney had three events, spoke about 25 minutes at each of them didn't say a word about the bailout or anything like that, and at each event any obama response was the auto bailout. and chrysler denies the claim in that ad that they are going to be sending jeep jobs to china. and portman introducing romney noted that he had supported the auto bailout when it happened and then made that whole pitch which is ultimately romney is better than you than obama. i think if it wasn't for the auto bailout romney would probably be ahead i
mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit...
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romney into a fight and romney didn't take the bait. >> the fight didn't work well for romney when they did it a few weeks ago at hofstra. you want to be respectful to the president and the president had to defend a record that's kind of mediocre, and at the end of the day he was not particularly forthcoming. he was talking about he had nothing to do with the sequester which obviously his own omb director was the architect of it. they quickly had to go out and take that back. and his little snarly remark about not knowing the difference between a bayonet and a submarine. he clearly didn't know that four years ago. the end of the day he didn't come off as well as he should have as commander in chief. >> the current commander in chief let mr. romney try to have it and tried to portray him as some sort of a cartoon. here he is alongside mr. romney, who reminded the president that attack me is not an agenda, mr. president. >> what we need to do with respect to the middle east is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map. >> attack me is not an age
romney into a fight and romney didn't take the bait. >> the fight didn't work well for romney when they did it a few weeks ago at hofstra. you want to be respectful to the president and the president had to defend a record that's kind of mediocre, and at the end of the day he was not particularly forthcoming. he was talking about he had nothing to do with the sequester which obviously his own omb director was the architect of it. they quickly had to go out and take that back. and his...
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a very different mitt romney showed up. i don't know whether the president we would get, be if he were elected, would be the one that was at the debate last night or the one who campaigned as a neo conservative these many months. i think there was a bit of dishonesty in terms of using strategy to mask policy. i don't know what policy is. i would suspect that the mitt romney that we saw for the last two years is the one who would go to the oval office and that's one i think that would make the situation in the middle east a little more complicated and a little more dangerous. the one who showed up last night was a mirror reflection of president obama in many ways and i think would be a continuation of policy. but i don't think that's the real mitt romney. >> jane har nan, you were at the debate what was your impression watching it from the audience? >> first of all we need to call you the iron woman of television. you do more travel and tv than anybody i've ever seen and look gorgeous. >> thank you for that. >> being there w
a very different mitt romney showed up. i don't know whether the president we would get, be if he were elected, would be the one that was at the debate last night or the one who campaigned as a neo conservative these many months. i think there was a bit of dishonesty in terms of using strategy to mask policy. i don't know what policy is. i would suspect that the mitt romney that we saw for the last two years is the one who would go to the oval office and that's one i think that would make the...
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romney's attack on mr. obama's decision not to visit israel during his first foreign president. >> you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and saudi arabia and turkey and iraq. and by the way, you skipped israel. >> if we're going to talk about trips that we've taken -- >> reporter: for factory workers in ohio, the flare up over romney's opposition to the auto bailout. >> iran, mr. president. >> no, i am not wrong. >> people will look it up. >> and for military voters in virginia, romney's charge that the size of the navy is at 1917 levels. >> well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed. >> reporter: it was hardly a direct hit for either candidate. as it turns out, every marine still undergoes bayonet training. and the fact checking watchdog blame the president for the current navy fleet levels as pants on fire. now, as for the president's blueprint that he laid out earlier today talking about his second term agenda, we did talk to some senio
romney's attack on mr. obama's decision not to visit israel during his first foreign president. >> you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and saudi arabia and turkey and iraq. and by the way, you skipped israel. >> if we're going to talk about trips that we've taken -- >> reporter: for factory workers in ohio, the flare up over romney's opposition to the auto bailout. >> iran, mr. president. >> no, i am not wrong. >> people will look it up....
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mitt romney did not. partly it was maybe mitt romney had a cold. but it was the issue they were talking about. obama not going into the presidency with a lot of foreign policy experience. but there's been a lot happen on his watch. he's handled it. he's grown. he's handled it very, very well, i believe. restored our reputation around the world. mitt romney knows this is not his long suit. i think he was nervous about not making a big jerry ford kind of goof. gaffe. >> his positions in this area, mitt romney's, they're all an inch deep. so i think that there was a calculation that look, we do not want to get into a back and forth. peel back the onion. so when obama would attack, romney's response, a number of times was just well, attacking me doesn't solve the problem. but of course you could say about any attack or any -- you could say that no matter what. and it kind of gets you through in a way but it also fends off any extended -- any extended back and forth because when you peel back, he hasn't articulated beyond the talk and beyond the bluster
mitt romney did not. partly it was maybe mitt romney had a cold. but it was the issue they were talking about. obama not going into the presidency with a lot of foreign policy experience. but there's been a lot happen on his watch. he's handled it. he's grown. he's handled it very, very well, i believe. restored our reputation around the world. mitt romney knows this is not his long suit. i think he was nervous about not making a big jerry ford kind of goof. gaffe. >> his positions in...
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romney has never led in ohio. he has never led in nevada, wisconsin, iowa, never, and none of the polls. okay. and so what you get here is a situation where, at the moment, he's trying to perpetuate the momentum by coming on with this argument that he is moderate mitt. a little bit of trick-or-treat for the halloween season here. like what is this real mitt. but he wants -- >> sounds like and obama talking point. >> no. the fact is, that is the try he's making for the few voters that remain, that he's not the guy that barack obama castigated as a hard hearted extremist, and i think that is why paul ryan has disappeared from the map for the most part. he's off, and you don't see him in a place like ohio or wisconsin. >> chris: he's in ohio, right now. >> made a major address in cleveland. >> and... >> alabama, you will see him in south carolina. >> one day, please -- >> please, please, get out of here. >> as a matter of fact, it is an inconvenient fact, juan. >> chris: he was in ohio. >> let me say, the key here is
romney has never led in ohio. he has never led in nevada, wisconsin, iowa, never, and none of the polls. okay. and so what you get here is a situation where, at the moment, he's trying to perpetuate the momentum by coming on with this argument that he is moderate mitt. a little bit of trick-or-treat for the halloween season here. like what is this real mitt. but he wants -- >> sounds like and obama talking point. >> no. the fact is, that is the try he's making for the few voters...
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and mitt romney won both. so he gets the first word tonight in the form of the first question being directed to him and he gets the last word tonight too with the last closing statement. and that is the definition of good luck. steve smith, what do both sides need to do? >> mitt romney needs to have an error-free debate. we look at the debates like game seven in the national league. each one is its own distinct event. if you look at the debate since they began, they benefitted mitt romney enormously. he's now in a tie race with two weeks to go. the momentum that mitt romney has, the math is expanding in his direction, he's pressing on. he needs to be presidential. no lose talk. no bellicose talk. he wants to appear as a steady hand. and i think that you look for him tonight to be a lot less argumentative than he was in the last debate. doesn't want to come across as too hot in this debate. wants people to look at him for him to have passed his last test as commander in chief. that he can get over that bar as a
and mitt romney won both. so he gets the first word tonight in the form of the first question being directed to him and he gets the last word tonight too with the last closing statement. and that is the definition of good luck. steve smith, what do both sides need to do? >> mitt romney needs to have an error-free debate. we look at the debates like game seven in the national league. each one is its own distinct event. if you look at the debate since they began, they benefitted mitt romney...
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what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. anncr: no matter what mitt romney's ads say. we know what he'll do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. we had a good group of people. good group of employees out there. this was a booming place. and mitt romney and bain capital turned it in to a junk yard. i was suddenly, 60 years old. i had no health care. mainly i was thinking about my family. how am i going to take care of my family. he promised us the same things he's promising the united states. and he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. anncr: priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> today's talker, women. we spoke way senior campaign advisor for presi
what mitt romney's tv ads say about women? or what mitt romney himself says? mitt romney: do i believe the supreme court... should overturn roe v. wade? yes. and it would be my preference that they, that they... reverse roe v. wade. hopefully reverse roe v. wade. overturn roe v. wade. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. anncr: no matter what mitt romney's ads say. we know what he'll do. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i...
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senate. >> it's a very fair ad when you consider that the romney and the romney campaign took their time and decided, yes, we're sticking with richard. >> yes. and he cut that ad for richard mourdock the same day of the debate. the same day that richard mourdock made the statement about rape. i mean, i think, the thing we have to remember is that mitt romney pulled off this incredible magic trip was to separate himself from the republican brand. to separate himself from really what alarmed young women in particular in this country about republicans, which is wait a minute. they actually believe that there is something, a difference between so-called forceable rape and regular rape. he distanced himself from the todd akin wing of the party at one point and was allowed to go forward. there's someone closer to mitt romney who believes exactly the way that richard mourdock does. it's his running mate. paul ryan. the other elephant in the room. >> karen your quick take on what this does to the indiana senate race? >> unfortunately the indiana senate race, i think it probably doesn't change th
senate. >> it's a very fair ad when you consider that the romney and the romney campaign took their time and decided, yes, we're sticking with richard. >> yes. and he cut that ad for richard mourdock the same day of the debate. the same day that richard mourdock made the statement about rape. i mean, i think, the thing we have to remember is that mitt romney pulled off this incredible magic trip was to separate himself from the republican brand. to separate himself from really what...
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mitt romney? what i was surprised about, greta during the debate on the middle east, mitt romney didn't bring up israel once. it just shows he isn't committed to israel in the way he says is he and only used it as a political opportunity and not done a very good job. >> i was surprised and is a missed opportunity for governor rom neechl i would have mentioned president obama didn't meet with prime minister netanyahu when he was here and that he was today there was a israel's embassy web site where they talked about they're surprised about the story whether there would be bilateral talk was iran or not. looks like there is a very chilly relationship between the president and prime minister netanyahu. ways surprised that governor romney didn't hit him with that. >> i was surprised that governor romney, who said israel is a priority didn't mention it. president obama made it clear in word and deed he has had israel back. he reiterated time and again when it doumz making sure israel and united states
mitt romney? what i was surprised about, greta during the debate on the middle east, mitt romney didn't bring up israel once. it just shows he isn't committed to israel in the way he says is he and only used it as a political opportunity and not done a very good job. >> i was surprised and is a missed opportunity for governor rom neechl i would have mentioned president obama didn't meet with prime minister netanyahu when he was here and that he was today there was a israel's embassy web...
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he came out swinging very hard against mitt romney, cometted on the attack, scornful, mad at mitt romney and really tried to take him down a peg. he didn't change the trajectory of the race because even those people who said the president won, a lot of them said that mitt romney looked plausible as commander in chief. that's dangerous. so for the president as he goes into these final 14 short days, he's got to find a way to not just rehash, but he's got to find a way to reset. megyn: but the buzz last night, you know, in boca on set and in the spin room was that mitt romney was trying to appeal to moderates, to women in particular by not trying to look like a warmonger, by sounding a little bit more doveish and so on. and in the meantime his opponent, barack obama, was worrying about ohio, repeated by mentioning the auto bailout and trying to draw distinctions between himself and governor romney on china and other issues. that's the truth of this election right now, chris, is that if mitt romney doesn't win ohio, there are ways to the presidency for him, but they're tough. >> oh, and, yo
he came out swinging very hard against mitt romney, cometted on the attack, scornful, mad at mitt romney and really tried to take him down a peg. he didn't change the trajectory of the race because even those people who said the president won, a lot of them said that mitt romney looked plausible as commander in chief. that's dangerous. so for the president as he goes into these final 14 short days, he's got to find a way to not just rehash, but he's got to find a way to reset. megyn: but the...
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governor romney you keep on trying to, you know, airbrush history here. >> jonathan, is governor romney trying to airbush history as it relates to the auto bailout? >> i went back and read the op-ed last night. i got on my phone and looked into it. he says that the auto industry, the companies could ask the government for help. i don't know that he was necessarily totally off-base on it. everybody should read that "new york times" piece. it's also critical to get out of the bubble here. we're talking about the foreign policy bit of this. this is all very eerily reminiscent in 1992 when george h.w. bush wanted to talk policy while bill clinton ate his lunch on it. >> so you believe in the auto bailout moment there last night that governor romney ate president obama's lunch on the auto bailout? >> in the first presidential debate, absolutely. it was all about the economy. >> we're talking about last night. you told me that foreign policy, while important, your guy's "a" game is the economy and at every opportunity, both tried to figure out a way to pre bring in the economy. the big point
governor romney you keep on trying to, you know, airbrush history here. >> jonathan, is governor romney trying to airbush history as it relates to the auto bailout? >> i went back and read the op-ed last night. i got on my phone and looked into it. he says that the auto industry, the companies could ask the government for help. i don't know that he was necessarily totally off-base on it. everybody should read that "new york times" piece. it's also critical to get out of...
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days of unrelenting media coverage of romney. the romney statement. the attacks on romney. the gaffe he made and all of that. the media were uninterested in the story. they might have made a calculation. media interested in romney stuff and not interested in the detail. the secretary of state said that we saw is, you know, let's not rush any judgment, because we're going to get the report of the committee. you know what her committee will report? in the middle of next month. that means after election day. all they want to do is string it out to election day and run with a story it's about an american nut who released a video and not about the administration for admitting that al-qaeda is not on the heels but active. >> bret: i want to call an audible here and talk about the political impact of all of this and how it affects the election. change the topic for the second panel. we'll be right back after this. this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh
days of unrelenting media coverage of romney. the romney statement. the attacks on romney. the gaffe he made and all of that. the media were uninterested in the story. they might have made a calculation. media interested in romney stuff and not interested in the detail. the secretary of state said that we saw is, you know, let's not rush any judgment, because we're going to get the report of the committee. you know what her committee will report? in the middle of next month. that means after...
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the question is, which romney are voters going to get? which romney would they elect. the liberal one who ran for senate in '94, the pragmatic governor, the candidate of this year's gop primary? all politicians change positions over time. his changes raise questions over his core principles and make the details all the more troubling. would he stand-up to his own party, especially house republicans who undercut ohioan john boehner's attempts. how do you respond to that? >> look at his record. the guy created jobs. he's a job creator. we need that. jobs are the greatest moral issue when people are working, families are stronger. number two, he was governor of massachusetts. they went from deficits to surpluses from job loss to job creation. then you look at the olympics where he was a pure leader. look at his history. it tells you who he is. he's pragmatic, no question about it. he's also tough, firm and understands job creation. in terms of people not getting him, the first debate, i have never seen a debate have this much impact. the first debate gave people the chanc
the question is, which romney are voters going to get? which romney would they elect. the liberal one who ran for senate in '94, the pragmatic governor, the candidate of this year's gop primary? all politicians change positions over time. his changes raise questions over his core principles and make the details all the more troubling. would he stand-up to his own party, especially house republicans who undercut ohioan john boehner's attempts. how do you respond to that? >> look at his...
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here is romney. >> romney: did you get a chance to watch the debates? [ cheering ] >> romney: they have super charged our campaign. i got to tell you that. >> cenk: all right we're going to win! the campaign and the debates--by the way i watched the debates. you watched three out of four of them, you and ryan did. sad day for you. now here's obama's team saying the same thing. watch. >> we know what we know, and they know what they know. i'm confident that we're going to win this race, and we'll know who is bluffing and who isn't in two weeks. >> cenk: before if you remember both sides were, look, i don't know if we're going to win the polls don't look good. all of a sudden two weeks before the election, oh, we're definitely going to win. why do they do that? before they need money. that's why they send the panic e-mails to all their supporters, etc. saying give us $3 because we're about to lose. oh, my god, it's panic time. but now we're close to the election they've raised the money, they bought the ad. what is matters most is that you turn out the vo
here is romney. >> romney: did you get a chance to watch the debates? [ cheering ] >> romney: they have super charged our campaign. i got to tell you that. >> cenk: all right we're going to win! the campaign and the debates--by the way i watched the debates. you watched three out of four of them, you and ryan did. sad day for you. now here's obama's team saying the same thing. watch. >> we know what we know, and they know what they know. i'm confident that we're going to...
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mitt romney. >> "b" minus. >> "b." >> tough on mitt romney again, why? >> i just think all these things, it's the old adage accurate but not true styes. things aren't exactly right. >> what didn't you like about -- what did you find in error or slightly slippery in what romney said. >> well, i thought there were a couple of cases when he was talking about syria. when he was talking about we want to keep trying and just want to arm -- we want to arm some of the rebels but we have to figure out who they are. i just think there's so much nuance in these things. basically i hate giving these grades because -- >> i can tell. >> because there's so much nuance in this. it's really hard to give a definitive grade. matt has no problem with that. he was grading right away. >> but especially in the foreign affairs area. >> yeah, i have no problem and saying i made a mistake a day later saying i screwed up. the interesting thing about the debate and sort of saw accuracy as substance on foreign policy in the debate i didn't see mitt romney make any distinction with t
mitt romney. >> "b" minus. >> "b." >> tough on mitt romney again, why? >> i just think all these things, it's the old adage accurate but not true styes. things aren't exactly right. >> what didn't you like about -- what did you find in error or slightly slippery in what romney said. >> well, i thought there were a couple of cases when he was talking about syria. when he was talking about we want to keep trying and just want to arm -- we...
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romney, right? why on god's great campaign trail would mitt romney get up in front of 12,000 people in ohio and tell them the auto bailout actually hasn't helped you at all. your jobs making jeeps are going to china. i read it somewhere. where's this story he said he read somewhere? we found it. here it is. he was apparently trolling the nether regions of the right-wing press. he found it on a washington examiner blog post, which reported, quote, jeep, an obama favorite, looks to shift production to china. a move that would crash the economy in toledo. is this true? this is not true. this is a conservative blogger's misreading of a bloomberg report that actually was reporting this news for jeep. the bloomberg report was that global demand for jeep has risen to the point where the company can sell more of them in china and it wants to build jeeps for china in china. this is good news for an american company, not bad news. they are not shipping american jobs overseas. this doesn't mean less work for a
romney, right? why on god's great campaign trail would mitt romney get up in front of 12,000 people in ohio and tell them the auto bailout actually hasn't helped you at all. your jobs making jeeps are going to china. i read it somewhere. where's this story he said he read somewhere? we found it. here it is. he was apparently trolling the nether regions of the right-wing press. he found it on a washington examiner blog post, which reported, quote, jeep, an obama favorite, looks to shift...
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is the romney campaign reached out to you, or have you reached out to the romney campaign in these last stretch here for advice? >> yes, but, you know, i found when i was running, that all i got was advice. it's the cheapest commodity around, and everybody had the answer. so i know that mitt listens to me, but he really -- my main advice to him, trust his own instincts. i think at the's a very smart guy with all the right instincts. >> senator john mccain, thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate it. >>> coming up, our experts are breaking down expectations for tonight's debate, and those poll numbers. a live debate just two minutes away. you're watching the news edge you decide 2012. we'll be right back. president obama: i'm barack obama and i approve... this message. anncncr: victims. dependent. that's what mitt romney called forty-seven percent... of americans. including people on medicare. but what about his plan for you? romney would replace guaranteed benefits with a voucher system. seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. a plan aarp says would undermine me
is the romney campaign reached out to you, or have you reached out to the romney campaign in these last stretch here for advice? >> yes, but, you know, i found when i was running, that all i got was advice. it's the cheapest commodity around, and everybody had the answer. so i know that mitt listens to me, but he really -- my main advice to him, trust his own instincts. i think at the's a very smart guy with all the right instincts. >> senator john mccain, thank you so much for your...
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eso lo harÁ mitt romney. y lo que quiero decir a nuestra gente, jorge, que no tengan temor, es buen hombre, y que mejor rara la economÍa y mejora la vida de los hispanos. >>> y como ha abierto la conversaciÓn la Última pregunta es la siguiente. muchos temen que mitt romney sea un candidato para los ricos y no un candidato para los pobres. y departamenntro de la comunidaa estÁn los mas altos de pobreza y los mÁs altos niveles de desempleo. ¿como contradice lo dicho por muchos?. >>> >>> creo que fue un argumento a aritmÉtico de campaÑa el 6% en el centro harÁ la diferencia >>> mitt romney gobernarÁ para el 100% de la gente. mitt romney no es un hombre arrogante. toda esta fama que le quieren crear. se ha visto que no es un hombre noble. decir que va a gobernar para s ricos solamente, ¿no? creo que harÁ un esfuerzo adicional para demostrar. que Él estÁ con la gente pobre. con la clase media. estÁ con el 100% de la gente. ha ha tenido un plan que va a funcionar. acaba de sacar un plan hace 2 dÍas.
eso lo harÁ mitt romney. y lo que quiero decir a nuestra gente, jorge, que no tengan temor, es buen hombre, y que mejor rara la economÍa y mejora la vida de los hispanos. >>> y como ha abierto la conversaciÓn la Última pregunta es la siguiente. muchos temen que mitt romney sea un candidato para los ricos y no un candidato para los pobres. y departamenntro de la comunidaa estÁn los mas altos de pobreza y los mÁs altos niveles de desempleo. ¿como contradice lo dicho por muchos?....
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governor romney always frames the conversation in that way. it is more that it is indicative of the unravelling of the narrative that has been spun by the obama campaign that, in fact, the world is a safer place. we know it is not. we know there was an attempted terrorist attack in new york last week. we know things are not going the way the obama administration hoped. the russian reset is not working and iran is closer to possessing a nuclear bomb. the foreign policy has not been a success. >>shepard: health officials two more people have died fungal meningitis linked to the tainted steroids. we have reported on this for weeks and it is sounding like white noise. 14,000 have received the injections of steroids and 300 have been sickened. so far. it is difficult to predict when the outbreak will be over because the mold that causes the disease is so rare they do not know how long it takes to incubate. the centers for disease control if atlanta reports cases across 16 states. jonathan, how rare is this outbreak, jonathan? >>jonathan: these outb
governor romney always frames the conversation in that way. it is more that it is indicative of the unravelling of the narrative that has been spun by the obama campaign that, in fact, the world is a safer place. we know it is not. we know there was an attempted terrorist attack in new york last week. we know things are not going the way the obama administration hoped. the russian reset is not working and iran is closer to possessing a nuclear bomb. the foreign policy has not been a success....
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romney needs it. the president would like to keep it. >> we're hearing so many of these reports there could be recounts like in 2000. one of candidates could win the popular vote, lose the electoral college vote. there are intriguing possibilities out there. >> you mention 2000. this has happened four times in our history. of course the most recent time was 12 years ago where al gore actually won in the popular vote. george w. bush became the president of the united states because of 537 votes in florida. again people think the map this year will be more like this. romney will do better in a lot of these states. some people think it's possible romney ekes out a popular win. it's so close it could go the other way too. the president could win the popular vote. is it likely to happen? both campaigns say probably not. because tgs so close it's possible. we've got a lot of lawyers standing by in case of a recount, other morning after question. >> a lot of lawyers are standing by as well. you were in ohio,
romney needs it. the president would like to keep it. >> we're hearing so many of these reports there could be recounts like in 2000. one of candidates could win the popular vote, lose the electoral college vote. there are intriguing possibilities out there. >> you mention 2000. this has happened four times in our history. of course the most recent time was 12 years ago where al gore actually won in the popular vote. george w. bush became the president of the united states because...
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governor romney on the other hand-- >> schieffer: it's governor romney who brought up binders and big bird. >> they're trying to make that the central argument in the last 16 days is really very small for their campaign and they've conducted themselves like this over the last six months. i think a lot of people right now, we have 23 million people struggling to find work. we have a national debt that's over $16 trillion. $4 trillion-- this president has added trillion-dollar deficits every year for the last four years, and this is the president's closing argument. i think one of the condition tafts that has emerged in these deterioration one that has worked to governor romney's favor is governor romney has plans for the future on everything from bringing down energy lies lowering health care costs, rejuvenating the economy, putting people back to work. and that contrast has worked in our favor because governor romney has a plan for the future. whereas over the next four years, we don't know what president obama would do. and the american people right now i think are judging the presid
governor romney on the other hand-- >> schieffer: it's governor romney who brought up binders and big bird. >> they're trying to make that the central argument in the last 16 days is really very small for their campaign and they've conducted themselves like this over the last six months. i think a lot of people right now, we have 23 million people struggling to find work. we have a national debt that's over $16 trillion. $4 trillion-- this president has added trillion-dollar...
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. >> romney, you have one more romney. romney. >> cover up scandals in the middle east. >> what was the scandal covered up? >> benghazi. >> what was the scandal? >> what was the scandal? >> there was a video, it was not about the video. >> everyone knows it's all about the video. thank you very much. >> they hate obama. they want to go out to the white house as much as they want to destroy al qaeda. the number one thing is hatred for obama. we could go into that about the white working class and the south and looking at the numbers we are getting the last couple days about racial hatred this isn't about being a better president. they want to get rid of this president. >> this is now nbc news is completely and utterly unhinged. should we -- could we int the pr -- interpret that as they think his guy is going to lose? >> they are panicked. chris matthews is delusional. he is delusional. for him to claim this is about a video and bully and bully a young guy about that, it is clearly, clearly dishonest. he knows it's not about
. >> romney, you have one more romney. romney. >> cover up scandals in the middle east. >> what was the scandal covered up? >> benghazi. >> what was the scandal? >> what was the scandal? >> there was a video, it was not about the video. >> everyone knows it's all about the video. thank you very much. >> they hate obama. they want to go out to the white house as much as they want to destroy al qaeda. the number one thing is hatred for obama....
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and mitt romney has a plan? >> mitt romney is aware economy is the main issue. that is what appeals to most voters.. >> which is more important to you? foreign or economic policy? >> economic? foreign? >> who says economic? virtually everybody. so is that a good strategy to do that? >> president must be well rounded and versed in all areas. mitt romney belongs in the private sector. and economics is his strength somewhat. >> i don't think the president qualified to be commander in chief. >> i believe americans are a little bit impatient and in my humble opinion in this instance, since -- . >> we're not -- . >> we have issues like we've had... >> four americans are dead this, is serious. it has something to do with he integrity. and honesty. it has something to do with they lied about it. >> we talk about benghazi? >> hold on, hold on. sean? sean? hold on. we're on live television. and i have lost control. thank you. please help me. >> when we talk about benghazi, there are some things we don't want to ignore. main thing we cannot do is the president's informatio
and mitt romney has a plan? >> mitt romney is aware economy is the main issue. that is what appeals to most voters.. >> which is more important to you? foreign or economic policy? >> economic? foreign? >> who says economic? virtually everybody. so is that a good strategy to do that? >> president must be well rounded and versed in all areas. mitt romney belongs in the private sector. and economics is his strength somewhat. >> i don't think the president...
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romney, 48% to 40%. let's get right to senior congressional correspondent dana bash who was watching that debate. good morning. >> good morning. look, we know this entire election year debates have really mattered. but this one was a little bit tricky because it's about foreign policy. that's not high on the priority list for voters. so each candidate really tried to make it a test of leadership. especially the president. >> reporter: mitt romney came wanting voters to see him as commander in chief. the commander in chief came determined to make sure that didn't happen. >> i know you haven't been in a position to actually execute foreign policy. but, every time you've offered an opinion, you've been wrong. >> reporter: time and time again the president's harsh criticism dripped with sarcasm. >> a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing america, you said russia. not al qaeda, you said russia. the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. because,
romney, 48% to 40%. let's get right to senior congressional correspondent dana bash who was watching that debate. good morning. >> good morning. look, we know this entire election year debates have really mattered. but this one was a little bit tricky because it's about foreign policy. that's not high on the priority list for voters. so each candidate really tried to make it a test of leadership. especially the president. >> reporter: mitt romney came wanting voters to see him as...
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romney. >> think what you've seen over the last few sweweeks is a consolidation of his base. you've seen particularly in our poll in the nbc/wall street journal poll barack obama's numbers have been stable. philippines look at registered voters. what that does mean a lot of the media momentum is with mitt romney. he's getting more of the positive headlines and more momentum describing headlines. going into tonight his challenge is to go in and not over learn once again the lessons of that first debate and be so aggressive. the elephant in the room he has so many george bush's advisers on his team. they are talking about whether we should take military acshow in the middle east. he has to calibrate how he'll attack that issue. >> that's the last thing people want on the right is to align romney with bush and remind people that mitt romney is being advised by a lot of the people that advised george w. bush. >> john bolton, he has the bush team. >> mitt romney, a novice on foreign policy. he has
romney. >> think what you've seen over the last few sweweeks is a consolidation of his base. you've seen particularly in our poll in the nbc/wall street journal poll barack obama's numbers have been stable. philippines look at registered voters. what that does mean a lot of the media momentum is with mitt romney. he's getting more of the positive headlines and more momentum describing headlines. going into tonight his challenge is to go in and not over learn once again the lessons of that...
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romney. the ohio, wisconsin, and iowa, he's got to make some inroads there. before that there's these four obama '08 states that are necessary for romney to flip over. starts with north carolina. he's well positioned to do that. florida, more likely than not to do that, but he also has to flip virginia and colorado before we can start talking about the ohio/wisconsin scenario. i think those are right now both of those at best 50/50 states for romney. i think the real -- there's a telling statistic out there. if you compare the exit polls from 2008 with the gallup polls from right now. if you look at the regional breakdown -- >> you mean the gallup tracking poll. >> if you look at the regional breakdown, in 2008 in the south, in the exit poll, it was even, obama versus mccain. today in that gallup tracking poll, it's a 22-point lead for mitt romney. so i think what you've seen is almost -- it looks like there's been an explosion of anti-obama sentiment in very, very red states which might be i
romney. the ohio, wisconsin, and iowa, he's got to make some inroads there. before that there's these four obama '08 states that are necessary for romney to flip over. starts with north carolina. he's well positioned to do that. florida, more likely than not to do that, but he also has to flip virginia and colorado before we can start talking about the ohio/wisconsin scenario. i think those are right now both of those at best 50/50 states for romney. i think the real -- there's a telling...
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liberals excoriated jim lehrer in the first debate because mitt romney 1. -- mitt romney won. service is not candy crowley because barack obama 1. -- conservatives knocked candy crowley because of barack obama won. martha raddatz escape unscathed mostly. i learned a lot from the first debate. i learned what mitt romney believed, that he was willing to tailor positions for the general electric, that barack obama did not show up and was not engaged. the reason i did was because similar give them the time to do it. -- jim lehrer gave them the time to do it. i think candy crowley did a good job, i think martha rdatz did a good job. i don't know the formula for a good debate. >> it seems that there are two choices here. you can have a moderator who holds their feet to the fire a bit and ask serious questions and is not let them michael around, and martha raddatz was the best example of that. if you are not going to do that, just let them talk to each other and have a bus to go up for time. >> what about the town hall format? >> no, i think i.t. is completely phony. have an impossib
liberals excoriated jim lehrer in the first debate because mitt romney 1. -- mitt romney won. service is not candy crowley because barack obama 1. -- conservatives knocked candy crowley because of barack obama won. martha raddatz escape unscathed mostly. i learned a lot from the first debate. i learned what mitt romney believed, that he was willing to tailor positions for the general electric, that barack obama did not show up and was not engaged. the reason i did was because similar give them...
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giving romney florida. that's with giving him iowa. that's with giving him colorado. that's this issue of the battleground versus the popular vote. >> more to come from chuck todd. thank you very much. we'll be back in a couple of minutes with him. i want to get to our battleground governors in a minute. but i want to start around the table with our roundtable. i mentioned rachel maddow is here from msnbc. carly fiorina, david brooks of the "new york times," ej dionne of the "washington post." i feel like the final stretch is going to be dominated by the fight over the economy. it's what ultimately can tip the scales. we have seen now an argument from the president that is about trust. and this is how he lays it out against governor romney. >> there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. trust matters. you know, you want to know that the person who is applying to be your president and commander-in-chief is trustworthy. that he means what he says. that he's not just making stuff up. d
giving romney florida. that's with giving him iowa. that's with giving him colorado. that's this issue of the battleground versus the popular vote. >> more to come from chuck todd. thank you very much. we'll be back in a couple of minutes with him. i want to get to our battleground governors in a minute. but i want to start around the table with our roundtable. i mentioned rachel maddow is here from msnbc. carly fiorina, david brooks of the "new york times," ej dionne of the...
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romney handled it okay. but the president made it clear, romney sis inconsistent. romney wanted to show people he's fluid in foreign policy. the president is right, there is a lot of holes in things mitt romney said last night versus the past, but he largely would send the signal to some voters i can do this job. i'm credible as commander in chief. getting over that bar is what his goal was so people would move past that question and on to other issues. >> even understanding the romney strategy if you were on twitter last night, reading the analysis afterwards, a lot of conservatives thought romney could have gone too far for applauding the president. i praise the president, i agree with the president actually. was that part of the strategy? >> it was part of the strategy. he may have done it more than his own advisers would have liked. but the point was to suggest mature, responsible, that he would be a steady hand on foreign policy. that he's not a war mongerme mm. by agreeing with the president, he took the edge off of that. the president is not scene quite as f
romney handled it okay. but the president made it clear, romney sis inconsistent. romney wanted to show people he's fluid in foreign policy. the president is right, there is a lot of holes in things mitt romney said last night versus the past, but he largely would send the signal to some voters i can do this job. i'm credible as commander in chief. getting over that bar is what his goal was so people would move past that question and on to other issues. >> even understanding the romney...
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romney. >> i did. >> are you in contact with him all the time? >> yes. >> what do you talk about? >> in general. he has a stance on china, which is a country that is ripping our heart out. we do nothing to protect ourselves, that i really like. >> where were these made? >> i don't know where they were made. but they are great. it's ties, shirts, cuff links. sold at macy's and they are doing great. >> where are the ties made? >> the ties are made in where? china. the ties are made in china. >> that look on donald trump's face is worth a million gold plated towers. that's worth the price of whatever impulse you have towards your fellow human being donald trump. whatever price you pay in empathetic shame just for the pleasure of seeing his actual shame at having that issue resolved that way on national tv. to be satisfied with seeing this lie of his unravelled. because it is a kind of lie to make it seem like you're the guy who would be super tough on china in business terms and economic terms.
romney. >> i did. >> are you in contact with him all the time? >> yes. >> what do you talk about? >> in general. he has a stance on china, which is a country that is ripping our heart out. we do nothing to protect ourselves, that i really like. >> where were these made? >> i don't know where they were made. but they are great. it's ties, shirts, cuff links. sold at macy's and they are doing great. >> where are the ties made? >> the ties are...